Jana

Congrats! Such hard work 💖💖

Best of luck!!

A Rivalry of Hearts was written for me and my book tastes, specifically. I cannot wait to read book 2!

Thanks to the author & Book of Matches Media for gifting me book 2.

Want your own copy? Check out my 📸 post for a book-away!

Once upon a time, I accidentally picked up my first spicy romance…

✨ Christmas Romance Recommendation ✨

I read Lovelight Farms two years ago and I still think about it all the time. In fact, writing this makes me want to go back and reread it. Especially because I read it so early in my romance reading era that I didn’t even review it!

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Ava and Des’s chemistry was off the charts, and I absolutely could not get enough of them.

Tropes:
💖 childhood friends to strangers to lovers
💖 “we’re just teaching each other how to date”
💖 secret identity
💖 sick / comfort
💖 meddling friends & family

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Get a Life, Chloe Brown is one of my all time favorite contemporary romances.

Is there anything better than a dual-POV enemies to lovers? If you need some spice and ✨tension✨ in your life - highly recommend.

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🫶🏻🫖 I live to spill the tea.

Dearest Gentle #Booksky📚💙 ,

If you ever wondered what nonsense was going around in other spaces, I am here to report!

✨ Holiday Recommendation ✨

Amor Actually was my favorite holiday read last year, and I highly recommend it if you haven’t read it yet! There are nine stories in the collection, and it is a reimagining of Love Actually.

#booksky 🌶️📚

New ARCs: • My Feral Romance •Flirting with Disaster •A Tropical Rebels Gets the Duke

A screenshot of my Goodreads 2024 challenge. I’ve read 183 of 100 books.

I went a little rogue this week, because I realized I could possibly meet my stretch goal of reading 200 books this year! So my up next list might look really familiar…😂

I’ve been taking my nonfiction reading slowly and listening to it for 10-20 minutes each day.

“What This Week” in black text with a light pink background. Cartoon book spines make a border on the bottom.

Just finished: • The Red Woman and the White Bear • Every Duke Has His Day • A Curvy Girl Wonderland • Fourth Wing (reread)

Currently reading: • White Tears / Brown Scars • A Monsoon Rising • Well Met (reread) •How to Find a Princess •A Rivalry of Hearts

Up Next: • Quicksilver • If a Poem Could Live and Breath • The Prince and the Apocalypse • All the Painted Stars • The Duchess Takes It All •Royal Holiday

If I read 3/4 of a book every day until the end of the year, I’ll meet my stretch goal of reading 200 books this year! 🤞🏻🤞🏻

What are you reading?

#booksky📚💙

Thanks for having me 🥰🥰

Eliza and the Duke by Harper St. George: 9780593441022 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books American heiress Eliza Dove was resigned to a polite marriage of convenience...until she spent one wicked night with the Duke. All hopeless romantic Eliza Dove asked for was one night of adventure. ...

Preorder here: bit.ly/3YS5G3K

The cover for the book “Eliza and the Duke” is shown: a white womanhood wearing a blue jewel toned dress sits on a blue floral carpet.

Books listed: the Gilded Age Heiresses series and The Stranger I Wed

The cover for ELIZA AND THE DUKE by @harperstgeorge.bsky.social is here and it’s gorgeous! An American heiress must marry an aristocrat to collect her fortune, but she keeps getting distracted by a bare-knuckle boxing prizefighter. Out June 24.

Swipe to see my favorites that I’ve read so far!

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That’s valid! Eating plant based also helps me with my chronic illness, Twinsies!

Part 2! All the group chats are on the photo place 🫶🏻

My November wrap up! I would recommend everything, and my favorites were:

💖 Business Casual
💖 The Roommate Risk
💖 Hang the Moon
💖 Under Loch & Key
💖 The Marquis Who Musn’t
💖 Bride of the Shadow King

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Some people genuinely are confused about the point of reviews, I fear 😂

The comments hyping her up 😅. People are so messy 😂😂

It was a wild week!

First, is this how you read in your head? Second, is this how you read out loud? Third, has no one ever read a book to you? Fourth, you know that narrators are literally actors, right? It’s called voice acting. Many also perform on stage and screen. (As a teacher, my fourth grade curriculum literally taught kids strategies so that while they are reading they are imagining the book like a movie in their mind. So this is just all so baffling. Like that is kind of The Point.)

Cyclical dialogue: (11) Trigger Warnings. It is such a privilege to have an opinion about trigger warnings and to not have experience with why people need trigger warnings. Have you had a *literal* panic attack while reading a book? No? Shut up. Trigger warnings are a way for readers to consent with the material in the book. A Trigger = something that triggers someone’s trauma. Let’s not be cutesy about it. If you don’t like them or need them, skip the page they are on. If you’re an audiobook listener like I am, it is also very easy to skip this section.

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5 A reviewer tagged an author in a 1 review, which isn’t cool. As we’ve established. BUT THEN - they KEPT reposting and tagging them in the review OVER. And OVER. Again. And like, I donno, we talk about how there’s a loneliness epidemic but I think some people just don’t talk to other people at all or join communities.

6 There were many reactions to the NYT Best Books that was posted this past week. But a bad one was someone saying that there were *no* authentic queer experiences on the list, when the list included The Pairing by Casey McQuiston, who is non-binary, which is an identity that is part of the trans umbrella, which is part of the queer community.

7 Speaking of people who should familiarize themselves with the book community, specifically the author community, was this lovely take. “Are reviews not for authors…or are reviewers perhaps uncomfortable with delivering constructive criticism.” (Remember friends: editors and critique partners are for constructive criticism. Reviews are for readers!) 8 Someone on the clock app complained that B&N had a whole shelf of AI books. Only they were Harlequin books, not AI.

9 A bunch of traditionally published historical romance authors announced that their series are being discontinued. I personally love historicals and am really sad about this. People Who Hate Reading and Think Everyone Else Should Too had a lot of opinions this week: (10) Someone said that narrators shouldn’t perform audiobooks and instead read them deadpan so that it is “technically reading” OTHERWISE movies could be considered reading. To which I have So Many Questions.

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Dearest Gentle Bookthreader, To my readers in the U.S.: I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration, free from screaming or weirdly judgemental relatives. I felt very fortunate that mine was peaceful and loving! 1 Have you ever thought to yourself, “Wow, I wish publishers didn’t take so much time editing books!” Well, you are in luck! Some bros of Silicon Valley (I assume) are publishing 8,000 books in 2025 using AI! Thank Reading Rainbow for them, really.

They are here to save publishing. Jokes aside - I, for one, am interested in robots doing my dishes, not making art, and intend to have my reading choices give money to human authors and editors! (For the full story, see link in final post)

2 Is your area banning books? Consider breaking the law and becoming a book pirate! That way you can harm authors and in no way fix the problem, except for how it affects you, personally. (THIS IS A JOKE PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS. But someone thought that was a real smart thing to post.)

3 One Indie Author had a tough week after she announced that she was recasting the male narrator for her audiobook. Fans of the original narrator complained so much that the author wanted to quit social media. 4 An author naming a character “Neekar” was controversial. Many people think that the pronunciation is very close to a slur. Others thought that it came from the author’s cultural heritage and we shouldn’t judge other languages and names based on our own messed up culture.

Dearest Gentle #Booksky📚💙 ,

Here is this week’s book drama round up!

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Netgalley Approvals: • The Sirens • Wooing the Witch Queen • Malinalli • The Jewel of the Isle